~jhimm writes: “My comment was intended to point out only one thing:
The hypocrisy we see from many Christians who seem to revel in the condemnation of homosexuals and actively do all they can to make them second class citizens in our society while doing nothing of the kind to any other kind of sinner.”

Exactly so ~Jhimm. My original question still stands in response to your earlier posting. Should Christians exert the same kinds of pressures or demonstrate the same kinds of condemnation towards other sin, sins and sinners?

Given your tender conscience respecting disturbing images and persons, let me share that every person and every incident I shared is based on a person or persons or an incident or incidents of which I have personal and, in some cases, intimate knowledge. Do you think such things, in a fallen world, are for The Illiad, Pan’s Labyrinth or the Bible only?

Again, given the disturbing incidents and persons, wasn’t there someone you wanted to condemn and consign to the bin of second class citizenship? (I have several in mind personally) How about me? Don’t I qualify for the same kind of treatment from you that other Chrstians demonstrate toward homosexuals?

And if you were disturbed by the incidents and persons I related, do you ever wonder what God might have thought and felt about them? The real incidents, I mean.

Do you have any mercy toward the young Marine’s father who threw himself upon Gods mercy seat or do we condemn him like some Christians do homosexuals?

My point is, and has always been, whenever I have contributed to this site: We are all sinners. If it’s not one thing, it’s something else. The law shuts us all up before God. I want to see Christians look at themselves and be as hard on their own sins (harder really) than they are on another’s.

What disturbs me is a seeming perpetual tap dance to minimize or eliminate some sins and elevate others to the status of “real” sin.

An example: Someone reading this, a Christian, is stealing hours of his employer’s time bloging on a site devoted to mobilizing Christians to take seriously their call to be good stewards of the planet and its resources by the boycott of ecologically unsound corporations.
Corporate rapacity-bad!
Getting paid for work he hasn’t done-good! That’s just a silly example, but maybe you get an idea of my point. To paraphrase The Firesign Theatre, “We’re all Hypocrites on this Bus.”

Anyway, ~Jhimm, I was not specifically responding to your particular post, it just happened to be where I was when I responded to the general conversation. My comments were intended as a general comment, though your quotation I borrowed seemed a good jumping off point. I had no intentions of upsetting you personally. As it seems I did so, please accept my apology.

Alario